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Doha Round: Political Momentum Growing As Ministers Prepare For Paris Meet
During last week, major groups within the WTO positioned themselves in anticipation of ministerial level talks on the Doha round of trade negotiations, held at the sidelines of an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) summit in Paris from 13-14 May. EC Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy and Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler circulated a letter…
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Development Committee Discusses Declining Commodity Prices
The WTO Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) met on 11 May, with Members focusing on declining commodity prices and Paragraph 51 of the Doha mandate (which requests Members to consider how sustainable development is reflected in the overall negotiations). Chaired by Ambassador Trevor Clarke (Barbados), the meeting was dominated by discussions on declining commodity prices,…
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LDCs Agree On Doha Round Positions
The trade ministers of the least-developed countries (LDCs) — meeting in Dakar, Senegal, from 4-5 May for the third LDC trade ministers conference — reaffirmed their commitment to the multilateral trading system and emphasised the need for the ongoing Doha round of trade negotiations to take their development concerns into account. The participants adopted the…
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ACP Ministers Take Stance On Cotonou Review
The 79th Session of the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Council of Ministers met in Gaborone, Botswana from 4-5 May to consolidate the ACP strategy in light of major developments, such as the imminent review of the Cotonou Agreement to be launched this year, and the stalled WTO talks. The Council of Ministers — composed…
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Pull And Push Of EU-China Relations
MONSANTO DEFERS COMMERCIALISATION OF GM WHEAT Monsanto, the world’s largest seller of genetically modified seeds, announced on 10 May that it would defer efforts to commercialise Roundup Ready wheat, a genetically modified crop engineered to tolerate Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. According to Monsanto, the marketing of the GM wheat would be on hold "until other wheat biotechnology…
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Events
EVENTS For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar at: http://www.ictsd.org/cal/index.htm. If you would like to submit an event, please email events@ictsd.ch. ICTSD 17 May, Geneva, Switzerland: POLICY DIALOGUE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT 10 YEARS AFTER MARRAKECH: WHERE ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE HEADING? Ten…
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Resources
TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT REVIEW 2003. UNCTAD (May 2004). This first edition of UNCTAD’s newest annual review addresses issues at the interface of trade and environment from a development perspective. The Trade and Environment Review seeks to provide a consolidated basis for discussions on leading trade and environment issues, while giving the debate a constructive and…